Abandon SE4?Opinions:Space Empires 5 screen shots?

[Fyron]

"I'm really sorry, I didn't want to offend you or anyone of the other testers, I apologize if you feel offended. I am sure you are doing the best that you can, I think I couldn't do better, knowing SE4 and the basic game structure too."

No worries; I probably overreacted anyways.

"Another annoying thing in SE4 is the build queue mechanic, does SE5 finally spill over construction points from one build into the next ??"

I'll just refer to Kwok's post:
Production is like SE:IV but you can construct multiple items per turn for any item.

[Roanon]

"I'll just refer to Kwok's post:
Production is like SE:IV but you can construct multiple items per turn for any item. "

Maybe I have misunderstood this - sounded to me like you can construct X ships of one specific sort, like you can do with units in SE4. But it still is unclear to me: do you still have to construct ships in a way to be as close as possible to a multiple of your construction/turn? In other words, if ship A finishes, do construction points spill over to ship B or is any leftover wasted, like now in SE4?

[Hugh Manatee]

I just don't get whats so freaking complicated about the concept of time stopping, you issuing orders, hitting the "unpause" or End turn button or whatever it will be called and watch your ships do what you just ordered, then time stops again and you have as much time as you want to consider your next moves and issue them..... Also who plays tactical mode unless you're in a hotseat scenario... the last time I played tactical mode was in SE3, when the strategic came along I never had to move and issue firing orders to a fleet of 200 ships individually again....

Ever play birth of the federation? I immagine something like that but with much much more detail. In BotF at the beginning of each turn you pick comands for your ships depending on what the are and then hit end turn and they do it in real time.

[Kana]

Ill be happy if the SE3 convention of ordering, paying for the ship, and then having it sit next to the planet while all of the components are being constructed on.

That way said ships can be attacked, possibly move, or fight back, depending on components successfully installed.

[StarShadow]

This probably falls more into the category of wishlist item, but I'd really like to see an option to have the system-view in SE4 style. I wouldn't even mind a galciv type view, but I really don't like the starfury type view.